Writing Async Libraries – Let’s Convert HTML to PDF
PHP
By Christopher Pitt,
Chris goes through the whole process of building a PHP async library for converting HTML to PDF - magical stuff!
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How PHP Executes – from Source Code to Render
PHP
By Thomas Punt,
Thomas Punt goes through the four stages of PHP execution - from lexing to compilation and optimization. Here's what you make happen, daily!
Using GDELT 2 with PHP to Analyze the World!
PHP
By Patrick van Bergen,
Patrick looks at an example use of GDELT - the world's database of events - and uses it to analyze some world trends with PHP and SQL. Check it out!
Sourcehunt – Open Source Week Edition
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
It's open source week at SitePoint, and this sourcehunt is an excellent starter, listing some amazing and diverse projects from this month and the last.
Beaver in Action: Practical MySQL Optimization
PHP
By Kirill Zhirnov,
Kirill demonstrates a practical example of optimizing a website's MySQL queries - check it out, it might come in handy in your optimization gigs!
RESTful Remote Object Proxies with ProxyManager
PHP
By Reza Lavarian,
What are proxies? How can we use them? And what kind of advanced use cases can we think of? Let's perform some RESTful remote miracles with ProxyManager!
Up and Running with the Fastest PHP Framework on PHP7 in 5 Mins
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Phalcon is back - and in style! It can now run on PHP 7, and is written completely in Zephir. Easy extension development AND perfect performance!
Quick Tip: Convenience Hacks for Passing Data to Views
PHP
By Reza Lavarian,
A couple of helper methods for quickly and effectively passing larger numbers of variables to views from your controllers
A Pokemon Crash Course on CouchDB
PHP
By Wern Ancheta,
Wern Ancheta takes us through a practical crash course into using CouchDB - CRUD, configuration, cooperation with PHP, and more!
6 More Must-Do Grav Tweaks: Ready for Hacker News Traffic!
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Super-caching, optimization, customization, comments, and much more you simply MUST do for your Grav installation
Can We Have Static Types in PHP without PHP 7 or HHVM?
PHP
By Younes Rafie,
Is it possible to have static type hints in PHP 5 without PHP 7 or HHVM? Yes - with the Augmented Types extension from Box!
Sourcehunt: PHP7-Only Alternative to Laravel, HPKP, and More
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
This sourcehunt features a PHP-7 only alternative to Laravel, input validation, HPKP, strict PHP object signatures, and more.
Can Symfony Apps Be Fast on Vagrant? Let’s Check with SuluCMS!
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
In this tutorial, we go through some effective performance hacks for developing Symfony apps on Vagrant virtual machines
Benchmarking: Can AppServer Beat Symfony’s Performance?
PHP
By Scott Molinari,
Scott revisits Appserver and benchmarks it against Symfony to dispel the rumors of bas performance. Does he succeed? Tune in to find out!
Containerized PHP Development Environments with Vagga
PHP
By Parham Doustdar,
Parham dives into Vagga - a lightweight alternative to Docker useful for containerized development environments - and builds a PHP environment!
Running an Elastic LAMP Stack on AWS
PHP
By Daniel Berman,
Daniel goes through the simple process of setting up a powerful LAMP stack on AWS with Zend Server, for high traffic cloud-safe web applications!